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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

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People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

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The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

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